Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Middlesex Assistant District Attorney George Murphy must have felt left out. Cambridge District Court Judge Lawrence P. Feloney '43-'46 told him that unless Middlesex Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel '53 arraigned an alleged murder suspect soon, Feloney would dismiss the charges. Murphy's response: "I don't want to get caught between two Harvard...
Investigators were not ready to dismiss the possibility that Flight 811 was the target of a terrorist bombing, especially when it was recalled that in January a Honolulu radio station received a call from a man threatening to plant a bomb on a U.S. plane unless a member of the Japanese Red Army was released from a U.S. jail. The immediate speculation, however, was that a cargo door had simply been whipped off in flight, taking a large portion of the fuselage with it. If that was the case, the incident was one more in a series of mishaps...
...while Kennedy School officials may dismiss the Dukakis rumor, no one but President Bok really seems to know much about the search to replace Dean Graham T. Allison...
...Democratic senators rightly questioned whether Tower's judgment would be similarly shaky if he became Secretary of Defense, a position from which he could easily favor his former employers. Tower said he would dismiss himself from some, but not all, the cases which would affect the contractors. Such ethical ambiguity alone was enough to cast doubt on Tower's worthiness for the office--even if the allegations about drinking and womanizing were largely untrue...
Delays and interruptions are not the only prosecution worries. At any point Thornburgh could use his authority under a 1980 law to forbid disclosure of documents that Judge Gesell concludes the jury really does have to see. The judge would then have to dismiss some or all of the dozen charges against North, which together carry a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison and $3 million in fines. At the extreme, North could walk free. Alternatively, he might escape the weightier charges of lying to Congress, obstructing an investigation and shredding Government documents and be tried on only...